* 1879 – 1882 William Barton Rogers

Barton first became an MP in 1879, in the Parliament of New South Wales.

* Basil Barton ( 1879 – 1958 ), British solicitor and Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP )

At the age of 22 Coulthard umpired the third Test cricket match played between Australia and England in Melbourne on 2 January to 4 January 1879.

Slight was also a leading Australian rules footballer for South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) as well as a field umpire, who, in 1879, umpired the first ever interstate Australian rules match.

P. Coady ( dates unknown ) umpired one Test cricket match played between Australia and England in Melbourne on 2 – 4 January 1879.

Fulham were formed in 1879 as Fulham St Andrew's Church Sunday School F. C., founded by worshipers ( mostly adept at cricket ) at the Church of England on Star Road, West Kensington ( St Andrew's, Fulham Fields ).

* 1879 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.

* 1879 – John Symes, English cricket player ( d. 1942 )

Following the 1878 season, Grace was assigned to Westminster Hospital for his final year of medical practice and this curtailed his cricket for a time as he did not play in the 1879 season until June.

During the 19th century the influx of people from the surrounding counties looking for work in the local ironworks and coal mines gave cricket a boost and in June 1879 " a meeting was held at the Institute to form a cricket club in the town ".

In Test cricket history there have been just 39 hat-tricks, the first achieved by Fred Spofforth for Australia against England in 1879.

The town also has a cricket club, Chatteris Cricket Club, which was founded in 1879.

The club's first success came in 1879, when the majority of the cricket press – except for Wisden – agreed that Lancashire and Nottinghamshire were joint champions.

The SCG has been a popular arena for a whole range of sports before the turn of the 20th century including cricket, tennis, baseball, soccer and cycling with athletics being staged there as early as 1879.

The club was formed in 1879 by members of the town's cricket team, and played their earliest games at the cricket ground in North Marine Road.

It is unlikely that the club fulfilled its fixtures in 1877 before finally disbanding at the end of the 1879 cricket season.

Mullagh never appeared in inter-colonial cricket although he did represent Victoria against a touring England side in 1879, top scoring with 36 in the second innings.

Lyttelton played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, captaining the side in 1879.

The Sydney Riot of 1879 was a civil disorder that occurred at an early international cricket match.

England cricket tours to Australia started in 1861, and while successful, were still in their infancy in 1879, despite the first Test match being played in 1877.

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Frederick Robert " Fred " Spofforth ( 9 September 1853 – 4 June 1926 ), also known as " The Demon Bowler ", was arguably the Australian cricket team's finest pace bowler of the nineteenth century and was the first bowler to take 50 Test wickets, and the first to take a test hat-trick in 1879.

During the January Test match of the 1879 Lord Harris ' England tour of Australia, played on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Spofforth became the first man to get a hat-trick in Test cricket, dismissing Vernon Royle, Francis MacKinnon and Tom Emmett in three successive deliveries.

* The first structure built, in 1879, was a simple pavilion overlooking the cricket ground.

A right-handed batsman, Gregory was the first Australian national cricket captain, leading the side for the first three recognised Test matches between England and Australia in March and April 1877 and January 1879.

Colin Blythe ( born 30 May 1879 in Deptford ; died in World War I on the Forest Hall to Pimmern military railway line, Belgium on 8 November 1917 ), also known as Charlie Blythe, was a Kent and England left arm spinner who is regarded as one of the finest bowlers of the period between 1900 and 1914-sometimes referred to as the " Golden Age " of cricket.

Hotham also found itself well represented at the first ever inter-colonial game in 1879 with four players from the club gaining selection for Victoria.

The first rugby game in Pocklington took place on West Green on Wednesday 12 November 1879 between " Pocklington Town and District " and " Pocklington Grammar School ".

The feature of the tourists game against New South Wales at the SCG in 1879 was a riot sparked apparently when the crowd disagreed with an umpiring decision by George Coulthard that went against the locals.

The first match was an away game against the Walton side played at Rice Field in Liverpool on 18 October 1879.

Archibald Wright " Moonlight " Graham ( November 10, 1879 – August 25, 1965 ) was an American professional baseball player who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905.

Only one week after the advertisement was published, Cliftonville played its first recorded game on the third ground of Cliftonville Cricket Club off Oldpark Avenue against a selection of rugby players known as Quidnunces, the game took place on 29 September 1879.

In February, Spofforth also played for New South Wales against Lord Harris ' tourists in a game that, on the Saturday, descended into the Sydney Riot of 1879.

Gregory was also the captain of the New South Wales team, notably during the Sydney Riot of 1879 when he rebelled against an unpopular decision by Victorian umpire George Coulthard during a game against the touring English team.

* Sai Wing Mock ( 1879 – 1941 ), operator of policy game in Chinatown, New York in the 1900s

Although the game was officially amateur at the time, Suter's move to England to play for Darwen in 1879 was shortly followed by him giving up his job as a stonemason, claiming that English stone was far too difficult to work, and fuelling criticism that he was being paid to play.

The first recorded game took place in Hobart on 10 May 1879 when the Cricketers Football Club played a scratch match.

More notably, in 1879 the club took part in a demonstration game at the Ulster Cricket Ground against a scratch team of local players in one of the earliest competitive football matches held in Northern Ireland.

He played as a substitute in one professional baseball game for the Providence Grays, on June 21, 1879.

' Power had a deep interest in sport and began his newspaper reporting career as early as 1879, long before the game of Ice Hockey had spread to Quebec City, Ontario or the West.

This was the case in the first ever interstate game, held on Tuesday, 1 July 1879, at East Melbourne Cricket Ground.